For want of self-restraint,
many men are engaged all their lives
in fighting with difficulties of their own making.
-Samuel Smiles
The difficulties of character persist
so long as one yields to them when they arise.
-Aurobindo Ghose
so long as one yields to them when they arise.
-Aurobindo Ghose
We must not wish for the disappearance of our troubles,
but the grace to transform them.
-Simone de Weil
but the grace to transform them.
-Simone de Weil
The difficulties that come to you are exactly in proportion to your strength -
nothing can happen to you that does not belong to your consciousness,
and all that belongs to your consciousness you are able to master.
-Mirra Alfassa, "The Mother"
The degree of difficulty in fulfillment
is directly proportionate to the degree of needed regeneracy;
degree of ease in fulfillment is directly proportionate to degree
of consciously-attained equilibrium.
-Elman Bacher
degree of ease in fulfillment is directly proportionate to degree
of consciously-attained equilibrium.
-Elman Bacher
Difficulties! Difficulties!
What are they, my Sisters?
They are merely children's playthings,
exaggerated by the imagination of a person
who is not yet accustomed to trusting entirely the infinite power of God.
-Mother Frances Cabrini
They are merely children's playthings,
exaggerated by the imagination of a person
who is not yet accustomed to trusting entirely the infinite power of God.
-Mother Frances Cabrini
